As Die Linke gathers for its tenth congress in Potsdam (19—21 June 2026), left activists in solidarity with Ukraine challenge motion G.26, “We won't pay for your wars!” This manifesto from the Network for a Just Peace argues that the motion's antimilitarism --- sound on arms-industry profiteering and welfare cuts --- makes the attacked society invisible and treats Russian imperialism as a footnote. It rejects three moves: the false analogy with 1914, the false symmetry between aggressor and (…)

Below we present a comprehensive report on our association's activities in 2025. It reports on our financial solidarity with our Asian partners, as well as our publishing and translation activities. The report incorporates information up to May 2026.
The delay between the close of the financial year and publication is now a recurring feature of our annual reporting. We continue to strive towards an earlier release without ever quite reaching it. The drafting of this 2025 report has again (…)

We publish below the leaflet distributed by the Gauche anticapitaliste (Anticapitalist Left, Belgium) at the anti-militarisation demonstration on 14 June, in which the organisation will participate despite its disagreements with the call text, in order to advance its positions for a just peace.
From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime. No justice, no peace
The Gauche anticapitaliste (Anticapitalist Left, Belgium) does not endorse the call for the 14 June demonstration against (…)

Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched his 2027 presidential campaign before 20,000 supporters in Saint-Denis with a programme of structural rupture and the claim that he alone can win the presidency. The rally --- held in a working-class northern suburb of Paris, with poetry recited, memories of the Popular Front and the Resistance invoked, and the royal burial basilica of Saint-Denis as backdrop --- was a calculated act of historical inscription, placing Mélenchon within a long popular tradition. (…)

En Russie, le mouvement syndical est soumis à une pression croissante. La Fédération des syndicats indépendants de Russie (FNPR, Federatsiya nezavisimykh profsoyuzov Rossii), héritière des structures soviétiques, a apporté son soutien inconditionnel à la guerre contre l'Ukraine et s'est retirée de la Confédération syndicale internationale --- sans que cette loyauté la protège des interférences étatiques : des affaires pénales pour détournement de biens syndicaux et un changement de direction (…)